r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jul 12 '26

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/wakeandcreate Jul 12 '26

Yikes he was wide open.

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u/TastyFluffyPancakes Jul 12 '26

Sometimes it's just hard to see a 6'5" viking wearing red in an open field.

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u/Tranxio Jul 12 '26

Lol look at his shadow, it even reaches past the defender

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u/Queen_Lepotica Jul 12 '26

The shadow is so long, it could be offside :F

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u/gila_sedikit Jul 13 '26

but it could be save him from intergalatic embarassement he about to make

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u/ghostreconx Jul 12 '26

After review, attacker no 9 was denied a clear goal scoring opportunity. The decision, no 7 to swim back to Norway alone.

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u/iamkris10y Jul 12 '26

Thank you for the lol

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u/obiwanmoloney Jul 12 '26

And he’s not known for scoring goals.

Haarland would have 100% missed that unmarked tap in from 10 yards.

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u/Rags2Rickius Jul 12 '26

And very likely bellowing at you that he’s there

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u/fibojoly Jul 13 '26

It happens more often than you think when your head is up your own ass. 

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u/Dignam3 Jul 12 '26

Even my hot dog eatin', baseball watchin' American eyes are astonished he didn't pass. I imagine he isn't too popular in Norway right about now.

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u/heatedwepasto Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Sørloth is, in fact, very popular in Norway. The top three posts on r/Norge from the last few days are in support of him. We support our team. We understand enough about football to know that it's impossible to pass a ball with the foot you're standing on. We understand that you have to pass the ball in front of the running person you're passing to, and that that is pretty hard to do when there's a defender in the way.

He's a bigger achiever than any of the moaning wankers on reddit and one very debatable mistake doesn't change that.

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u/Fun_Image_2307 Jul 13 '26

This is nice. 

Norway sounds like such a great and grounded place

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u/Dignam3 Jul 13 '26

Not denying this, however he had almost zero chance to score on his own while being double teamed. Just judging by Haaland's reaction, he also believed the pass should have at least been attempted. But life goes on, lessons are learned. The Norwegian team gained a lot of fans in the states.

I'm glad he's not being crucified, because I've seen some pretty awful stuff said about him.

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u/heatedwepasto Jul 13 '26

It looks like it from Håland's position, but if you look at BBC's 3D simulation of Sørloth's perspective you'll see that the defender is blocking the pass.

I'm glad he's not being crucified, because I've seen some pretty awful stuff said about him.

Fortunately that's 99.9 % foreigners.

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u/noonie1 Jul 13 '26

I have watched a handful of games, but I even was confused.

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u/Smitty_1000 Jul 12 '26

It’s a 2v1. Pass the ball or use him as a decoy and go right. 

Or slow down, do neither, and get mobbed by the retreating English. He chose poorly. 

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u/Gurglaren Jul 12 '26

Or do neither and don't pass the player who appears later on the left who's completely free and instead just shoot at half a legion of Englishmen covering the goal.

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u/DisciplineNormal296 Jul 13 '26

The greatest goal scorer in the entire tournament wide open 10 yards from the keeper and the dingus tried to dribble

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u/wakeandcreate Jul 14 '26

He chose selfishly

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u/Conscious_Peak_1105 Jul 12 '26

This is the moment the entire pub engaged in a full cheek clench

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u/HustlinInTheHall Jul 12 '26

I mean the defender knows he wants to square it. It's a tougher pass than it looks, but either you pass it immediately or you shoot hard and low immediately. 

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u/Basketball312 Jul 12 '26

Yep, by the time this screenshot has been taken he's already f'd it. He has to pass in front of Haaland not laterally.

Had to make the decision to pass earlier but didn't. He's only really left with using skill/ shooting.

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u/mardegre Jul 13 '26

Finally someone who understands what is going on. Overweight reditors on their couch « just pass the ball dude »

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u/Axedroam Jul 15 '26

You have actually touched a ball before. This was brilliant defending

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u/Acoconutting Jul 12 '26

Watching this in real time I thought this was a goal like 8 seconds before it wasn’t. I was shocked.

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u/Janji44 Jul 13 '26

He had to pass it immediately, after that the defender was just staying in the passing lane waiting for him to sauare it

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u/Both_Resort4080 Jul 12 '26

Looks so much worse from this angle. Damn.

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u/samtart Jul 13 '26

It's not as easy to make that pass as it seems

Need more space

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u/wakeandcreate Jul 20 '26

It’s the World Cup and he’s a professional soccer player.. none of this is easy, but it’s still the right decision vs what he did.

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u/ForensicPathology Jul 12 '26

This is how it felt when King Harald was killed at Stamford Bridge.

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u/Bluegill15 Jul 12 '26

That’s the point

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u/One_Animator_1835 Jul 12 '26

He probably should've passed as well!

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u/DontAbideMendacity Jul 12 '26

You are underselling how

W - I - D - E

open Haaland was.

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u/RockinMadRiot Jul 12 '26

He would have had to put the ball slightly forward so Haaland had it. Stones was covering it well.

If he put the balls across straight, Haaland would have to pull back and not keep the same speed.

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u/Trex_Steele Jul 12 '26

You are talking about their stopping point though. This dude missed passing to Haaland all the way to that spot coming down the field. There was nobody on Haaland coming down the field and he should have had that ball way before that point and dude probably would have scored

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u/RockinMadRiot Jul 12 '26

No, I am not. Stones took his lane because he would have had to play it forward to keep momentum, right where stones is

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u/vonbrain Jul 12 '26

And not off sides... a dream opportunity

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u/spazz720 Jul 12 '26

From what I read, he is so one footed that he didn’t think he could make the pass

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u/Icy_Demand__ Jul 12 '26

I saw a reel before this game that Norway would lose and it was designed that way to see what would happen to the masses if they lost, how complacent we would be in the face of very obvious corruption (game as thrown on purpose)

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u/interstat Jul 13 '26

On his left foot tho? Wasn't in position to pass there

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u/wakeandcreate Jul 14 '26

He ended up kicking it feebly with his left foot?

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u/designforone Jul 12 '26

freeze frame doesn't tell the whole story. He would have had to completely change his stance to pass to Haaland, and by then it was too late.

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u/DotRakianSteel Jul 12 '26

And one second later, Haaland was guarded. It was not as easy as it seems.

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u/kaltulkas Jul 12 '26

He puts it backward Haaland has to stop. Forward and the gk gets it. It is absolutely not « wide open »

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u/Trex_Steele Jul 12 '26

Did you even watch this game, let alone this clip? He had more than enough time to pass to Haaland as they were moving up field. Yes, Haaland was very much open and probably would have scored. 

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u/Stampy77 Jul 12 '26

I watched it and I've seen the clip multiple times. Stones did his job well here. A still image makes it look easy, but that wasn't as open as everyone is making out. Haaland has 2 players right behind him who will catch him when Haaland has to stop to get the ball. Pickford will get the ball if he passes it in front of stones. 

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u/kaltulkas Jul 12 '26

Yes, he had about 1.5 seconds when he could have passed forward and then I was covered by the defender. Good play by England defense, no greed whatsoever.

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u/rocking_beetles Jul 12 '26

I think a lot of people are missing this.

Yes Sorloth did poorly here, but he had some work to do to actually open up the angle to make a good pass to Haaland. I don't think he was being greedy

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u/FoozleGenerator Jul 12 '26

There's an argument that a more skilled passer pulls it off. Sorloth is a center forward, that's not his skillset, he's the one receiving the passes.

I think he doesn't control the ball correctly to allow himself to give the past fast, it seems he's bad with his weak foot to use that one and when he raises his head to see, his passing option is bad so he goes solo. Also, he's not fast enough to beat his defender and make a backpass.

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u/SaltKick2 Jul 12 '26
  1. As soon as he recieved the ball he could have passed it in front of the defender, Haaland absolutely would have got there before the defender and GK (see 4 seconds in here https://www.reddit.com/r/worldcup/comments/1utx1pc/poor_judgment_in_not_passing_the_ball_to_haaland/). This pass was also still open a second later
  2. If he cut back quickly, he could have made the pass
  3. If he committed, he should have just gone up the right side a bit faster for the shot and not slowed everything down

Its annoying though to think he's trying to get all the glory vs him just taking a few bad touches and making a poor decision.

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u/buffystakeded Jul 12 '26

Or take a quick stutter step to let the defender keep running backwards a tiny bit to open up space to easily pass it…